Title text:
Can you pass the nackle?
Transcript:
[Cueball is holding a pointer and gesturing towards a whiteboard that shows the chemical formulas HCOOH and CH₃COOH. Below these, respectively, are classic diagramatic representations of formic/methanoic acid [with an apparently accidental doubled bond between the carbon and the hydroxy group] and acetic/ethanoic acid; being, in turn, a single- and double-carbon chain molecule with a double-bonded oxygen (carbonyl group) plus an oxygen-hydrogen (hydroxy) upon one carbon of each, to form the full carboxyl grouping, and hydrogens completing all other expected bonds.]
Cueball: The two simplest carboxylic acids are hakoo and chuckoo.
Off-panel voice: No!![Caption below the panel:]
How to annoy chemists
Source: https://xkcd.com/3040/
Ikr, I hate when people draw too many bonds to the OH in formic acid. However, that annoyance is secondary to the new contender for HAC’s position as the stupidest abbreviation for acetic acid.